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Recounts the life of Egypt's greatest historian, analyses his work and assesses its impact then and now
Offers the most complete, probing and layered biography of al-Maqrizi
Interprets al-Maqrizi's historical output as a long-term scholarly project revolving around his famous Khitat to capture the entire history of Egypt
Analyses al-Maqrizi's approach and methodologies in light of his beliefs, ethics, feelings, education, social standing, world views, politics and personal circumstances
Distills from al-Maqrizi's massive textual output insights into his theorising, conception of history and the influence of his teacher Ibn Khaldun
Restores him to the pinnacle of Mamluk historiographical tradition as an unusually outspoken critic who was animated by his moral rectitude
Although al-Maqrizi is recognised as the most influential historian of pre-modern Egypt, he has never received the probing historical treatment warranted by his standing and scholarly output. This book fills that gap. Arranged in three sections, it tells al-Maqrizi's life story in the first, weaves it with historiographical, textual and methodological analysis of his oeuvre in the second, and reconstructs the afterlife of the author and his work down to the present in the third part.
al-Maqrizi is presented both as a man of his age who forged a distinct and unique scholarly persona and a historian with a structured and principled project aiming to reconstruct the history of Islamic Egypt in all its facets. His, however, was a critical stance with moral overtones, conceived from within the epistemological framework of a medieval Muslim thinker, which ensured not only his reputation in his own historiographical tradition, but also his reclamation in the modern Egyptian consciousness as one of the most original voices of Egypt.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Part 1: The Life of al-Maqrizi
Chapter 1: The Formative Years
The Sources on al-Maqrizi's Life
A Family of Scholars
The Loving Presence of Women in al-Maqrizi's Life
A Solid Scholarly Formation
Ibn Khaldun: Teacher and Interlocutor
A Glorious Lineage?
Al-Maqrizi's Representation of the Fatimids
Chapter 2: Career, Moral Crisis, and Withdrawal
A Question of Madhhab?
Building a Career
Quest for Patrons
The Hisba Saga
Rivalry with Badr al-Din al-'Ayni
The Damascus Interlude
The Beginning of Estrangement
Last Attempts at Finding Patronage?
Withdrawal
Death
Part 2: The Writing of al-Maqrizi
Chapter 3: Harvest of a Lifetime
A Tentative Inventory of al-Maqrizi's Works
Notebooks and Abridgments: A Window into al-Maqrizi's Sourcing Method
The Beginnings: From Abridger to Author
The Concept of Kharab: Looking Back as Method
The History of Egypt: An Integrated Project
Chapter 4: The Khitat: History and Belonging
The Khitat: A Cumulative Book?
Al-Mawa'iz wa-l-I'tibar: What's in a Title
Al-Maqrizi's Notion of History
Khitat and Athar: The Totality of the Urban Space
The Patriotic Impulse
Structuring the Khitat on the Tempo of Ruination
Al-Maqrizi and the Khaldunian Cyclical History
Part 3: The Afterlife of al-Maqrizi's Writing
Chapter 5: Al-Maqrizi and the Orientalists
The Khitat as Urban History
Al-Maqrizi and the Ottomans
Al-Maqrizi, Napoléon, and the Early Orientalists
Arabic Editions of al-Maqrizi's Khitat
Translating al-Maqrizi's Khitat
Re-Editing al-Maqrizi
Chapter 6: Reading al-Maqrizi in Modern Egypt
Al-Maqrizi's Readers on the Eve of the Nahda: al-Jabarti and Hasan al-'Attar
Publishing al-Maqrizi's Khitat
Reviving the Khitat Genre: 'Ali Mubarak and Muhammad Kurd'ali
Architectural History Comes to Egypt: From Coste to Creswell
Nationalist Egyptian Architectural History: 'Abdel-Wahab, Fikri, and Shafe'i
Al-Maqrizi in the Modern Narratives of Cairo: Mahfouz and al-Ghitani
Al-Maqrizi in the Egyptian Consciousness: Shalabi and Surur
In the Guise of a Conclusion
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